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    How Firefighters, Animals and Local Organizations are Benefitting from Diesel-Free Microgrids in L.A. Fire Zones

    Jan. 27, 2025
    In response to the Los Angeles fires, cleantech industry members that generally provide clean energy to the entertainment business have partnered with nonprofits like the Footprint...
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    President Trump's Executive Order Freezing IRA Funding: How will it Impact Microgrids and DERs?

    Jan. 23, 2025
    Short answer: we don't know yet. Tax credits might be safe without legislative action, but grants and loans could be under threat.
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    On-Site Power Opportunity and Challenge: Bloom Energy Report Predicts 80 GW Data Center Load in Future

    Jan. 21, 2025
    This could be a big opportunity for several players on the energy transition front, from distributed energy resources to small nuclear startups to microgrid developers—but it ...
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    DOE Pushes Accelerated Deployment of VPPs with New Liftoff Report

    Jan. 17, 2025
    “Utilities, regulators, policy makers and industry partners all have a role to play to adopt an innovation mindset to accelerate the deployment of virtual power plants and serve...
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    PowerSecure Powering Edged's New Data Center in Atlanta

    Jan. 16, 2025
    The Edged Atlanta campus includes a recently completed 27-MW data center within an overall 168-MW critical Information Technology site.
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    Major Microgrid M&A Deal: EQT Transition Infrastructure Acquires Scale

    Jan. 9, 2025
    New Jersey-based Scale is one of the microgrid sector’s biggest project builders with close to 250 MW of microgrid and community solar projects either in operation or construction...
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    DC's Public Service Commission Seeking RFPs for Transactive Neighborhood Renewable Microgrid Pilot

    Jan. 8, 2025
    The project should be sized to target a neighborhood of 50-200 residences and other buildings but can be larger,” reads the Public Service Commission of DC’s document. “Buildings...
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    Bs and Cs: Think Microgrid's State Scorecard Indicates Projects Growing, but Grades Policy Making as Slow So Far

    Dec. 20, 2024
    Developers, energy technology firms and end users are making the grade in uniting resiliency with sustainability. When it comes to state-level policy making, however, the efforts...

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    Key Microgrid Trends Impacting the New Energy Landscape

    As we enter 2025, microgrids are driving the evolution of the New Energy Landscape, fueled by advancements in renewable energy and smart technology. I see several transformati...

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    SEL executive discusses California microgrid reliability

    Oct. 27, 2021
    What make microgrids reliable and how can we prevent them from suffering the same fate as the bulk electric system? Check out this Microgrid California interview with Scott Manson...

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    The Lesser-Known Benefits of a Microgrid

    Jan. 2, 2023
    Whether connected or disconnected to the grid, a microgrid provides more than just reliable energy. Mesa Solutions outlines some of the lesser-known benefits of a microgrid including...
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    Guidiville Indian Rancheria Installing Harnyss Microgrid at California Tribal HQ

    Feb. 12, 2025
    The Harnyss microgrid will be paired with solar power on tribal grounds. The Guidiville Rancheria is a federally recognized Pomo tribe based in Mendocino County, California.
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    3 Pacific Island Nations Deploy Aquaculture and Agriculture Microgrids

    Feb. 11, 2025
    The Palau, Tuvalu and Marshall Island solar and energy storage microgrids will provide more than 50% of the power needed for aquaculture centers and demonstration farms.
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    GE Hitachi Signs SMR Nuclear Deals with UK Engineering Firms

    Feb. 6, 2025
    GE Hitachi Nuclear hopes to start construction on installing the SMR sometime in the middle of this decade and has estimated it can build those for about $1 billion per project...
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    New York Public Utility Funds Virtual Reality Initiative to Train Microgrid and Energy Storage System Electricians

    Feb. 6, 2025
    The New York Power Authority has awarded $400,000 to support the development and integration of a virtual reality (VR) component into the Energy Storage and Microgrid Training...
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    The nanogrid team: (Left to right) Branden Kurpenski, Production Manager, Sesame Solar; Gail Vaucher, Project Leader, Army Research Laboratory; Carol J. Bailey, SR Project Manager and Engineer, ERDC-CERL; Trish Cutler, Wildlife Biologist, WSMR Garrison Environmental Division; Nikmil Raj Nune, Engineering Manager, Sesame Solar and Benito F. Perez, Research Engineer, ERDC CERL (Courtesy Photo by Miriam Rodriguez)

    U.S. Army Unveils its First Hydrogen-Powered Nanogrid

    Feb. 3, 2025
    Located at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the system will power a wildlife surveillance camera system and a weather station.
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    Mission 300: World Bank Initiative Aims to Improve Electricity Access in Africa by 2030

    Jan. 31, 2025
    The World Bank and the African Development Bank, supported by a host of other partners, have launched Mission 300, an initiative that aims to expand access to reliable, affordable...